Why You'll Pay For Netflix — Even If You Don't Subscribe To Netflix

Velcroman1 writes "At the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show, Netflix announced Super HD, an immersive theatrical video format that looks more lifelike than any Web stream, even competing with Blu-Ray discs. But there's a costly catch. To watch the high-definition, 1080p movies when they debut later this year, you'll need a specific Internet Service Provider. Those on Cablevision or Google Fiber are in; those served by Time Warner or a host of smaller providers will be out of luck. But regardless of whether you subscribe to Netflix, you may end up paying for it, said Fred Campbell, a former FCC legal adviser who now heads The Communications Liberty & Innovation Project think tank. 'Instead of raising the price of its own service to cover the additional costs, Netflix wants to offload its additional costs onto all Internet consumers,' Campbell said. 'That's good for Netflix and bad for everyone else in the Internet economy.'"

Comments

Re:Infrastructure

[Anonymous Coward]

The only one who need lots of upload speed are content providers -- not consumers. You'll be fine at 10mbit you seeding pirate

Re:Yawn

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't believe someone on slashdot would watch the show that tries and makes fun of our person type, badly I may add. Not trolling, it's just a horrible, unfunny, and poorly written/researched show.

Re:Yawn

[cayenne8]

I am not even interested in watching HD, why do they think I'll care about this? Most people I know are pretty happy streaming onto their laptop something that looks pretty low res. I see plenty of details on zombies already.

Hmm.

I guess we run with different crowds. Most of the people I know are long out of college, have real jobs...and can easily afford a nice large flatscreen LCD/Plasma television for the main living room (and usually a few more in the bedrooms/office) and watch streaming, cable, uverse, bluray on those.

If you're a grown adult and can't afford anything more than a laptop (we all have those) to watch your movies or whatever on, you need to close the laptop, and start working a bit harder to get a real job.

HD tv is common now...it isn't like the old days when only a few people had colour television and everyone else could only afford black and white.

Hell, I've driven by the projects and see large flatscreens through the open doors...